Smyrna times., 1887-01-26

SUNDAY was the first fully bright
Sabbath day of the winter, coming in
the garb of an April day and breathing
the soft breath of Spring.
THE roads the past week have been
horrible, caused by the rapid thawing
of the deeply frozen ground. As the
latter is thaWed through and settled,
there will doubtless be an improvement
in the travelling.
LITTLE TOMMY" Marvel's father
has gone to Chester or Edge Moore
also, little Davy" Roses father, Syl-
vanus; VIM. H. Jones, who hauled the
pipes for the water names, and Andrew
Cummins, who did various things, the
departure altogether numbering some
eight or nine heads of families. They
have been caught up in the iron boom
and the expansiveness of wages which
lasts while the boom is on.
THERE is certainly a suggestion of
Spring in the name of Strawberries, es-
pecially when they are finding their
way to market, the Philadelphia papers
noting the arrival there on Saturday of
the first shipment from Florida, box
of six quarts, which the shipper held at
$4.0O a quart. By the way, what a su.
perb wedding present a crate of these
berries would have made if some one
could only have gotten hold of them
before they were gObbled up by the
milliOnaires.
OUR Library offers privileges to our
young men and women and all others
fV,co = 1
would be eagerly seized. 1t offers and
holds out inducements to seekers after
knowledge in every branch in art, lit
erature and science, and with such an
| open door it is a wonder that there are
not more to enter and possess it. The
directors of the Library have placed
the price of the shares at such a low
figure that almost every one could
afford to be a stockholder
THE members of the Hose Company,
at their meeting Monday night, had up
for consideration the matter of equip
ment, and adopted lightweight leather
hats, with front pieces, red binding;
gum coats and boots; white shirts and
and belts; also, alarm bell, three
trumpets and eight lanterns-fve white
and three colOred. Drying shelves
have been constructed in the hose room
for drying the hose after a fire, and the
room appropriated to them by the
Town Commissioners is being painted
preparatory for use.
SECOND Lieutenant William H. STAY
ton, United States marine corps, who
has been performing a tour of duty on
the United States ship Hartford, flag
ship of the Pacific squadron, has been
ordered to proceed to Washington for
orders, as the Hartford is to be put out
of commission at the Mare Island navy
yard, California. Lieutenant Stayton
is a Delawarean, from Smyrna, and
graduated at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis in 1888, having been the
regularly appointed cadet from this
district appointed by ex-COngressman
Williams.
The destruction of tree honOred by
age and association has something in it
akin to that Of the biOtting out Of the
life of an esteemed citizen by the angel
of death, but in some cases circum-
stances and age make both necessary,
as is the case of large elm that stood
at the rearOf the lawn at Woodlawn,' y
the home of Col. George w. Cummins
The tree had more than an ordinary
regard by Col. Cummins and his family
not only because it lowered above all
the others in its beautiful proportions
but also from its historic interest, but
disease had set in, and it was thought
the part of safety to let the axeman dc
his work of spoilatiOn. This tree had a
record in the family from the time il
was a small switch. 1t was brought BY
Mrs. Ann Denney, the mother of Mrs
Cummins, from the home of Caesar
Rodney, whittier she had been to make
visit when in her teens, and this tree
a mere switch, that she brought in hel
hand then grew with her at the same
home into maturity, but falling short il
age, Mrs. Denney dying five years age
at the age of 1O4 years and four days
the tree being but little over 80 year!
old.